The company says it is getting close to 'recursive self-improvement.' But it is slipping further behind rivals in the most capable, large models.

Google DeepMind will reveal Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, continuing its near-monthly AI model release cadence with improved outputs and

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns…